All Building Design articles in 1 September 2006

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  • News

    This week

    2006-09-01T00:00:00Z

    This week in brief

  • Review

    Venice is a window to the world

    2006-09-01T00:00:00Z

    Just ahead of the 2006 Venice Architecture Biennale, Peter Murray looks back at the event’s history and explains why it remains so important today

  • Opinion

    Weather the storm

    2006-09-01T00:00:00Z

    So, Prescott should be embarrassed because the £60,000 cedar-clad house suffered “damage” by fading to grey?

  • Opinion

    Silver service

    2006-09-01T00:00:00Z

    I was amazed by last week’s front page article “Prescott’s £60k house fades to grey”, which shows both bias and a tendency to score cheap points.

  • Opinion

    Stirling retort

    2006-09-01T00:00:00Z

    I see you have used the nomination of the Welsh Assembly Building as yet another opportunity to take a swipe at Wales.

  • News

    This year’s remodel

    2006-09-01T00:00:00Z

    Oxfordshire practice Spratley Architects has completed the remodelling of this former 1970s office building at Milton Park in Abingdon, Oxfordshire.

  • News

    Regulations rejected

    2006-09-01T00:00:00Z

    Exclusive survey: two in three architects believe building control damages design quality

  • Opinion

    Political vacuum

    2006-09-01T00:00:00Z

    Having returned from holiday, I have just read reports on the number of votes Peter Phillips received in the RIBA presidential election.

  • News

    Mix and match

    2006-09-01T00:00:00Z

    Aukett Fitzroy Robinson has submitted a planning application to the London Borough of Bexley for this mixed-use scheme on the high street at Welling in Kent.

  • Opinion

    The tale of the three little prigs

    2006-09-01T00:00:00Z

    Every little brick in the house had its own little blog on MySpace, with all the other little bricks listed as ‘friends’

  • News

    Park Royal warns off housebuilders

    2006-09-01T00:00:00Z

    The managers of London’s largest industrial park have pledged to protect their land from the encroaching demands of housebuilders.

  • Building Study

    Holy order

    2006-09-01T00:00:00Z

    St George’s Bloomsbury has suffered radical alterations through the ages, but now it has been painstakingly returned to Hawksmoor’s original vision.

  • News

    Planning without a handicap

    2006-09-01T00:00:00Z

    Planning has been granted for a private house overlooking the RAC Club’s golf course, designed by Eldridge Smerin.

  • Opinion

    Heritage site has great modern hope

    2006-09-01T00:00:00Z

    I have just moved into a new office, looking west, over Liverpool, European Capital of Culture 2008.

  • Opinion

    Fashion victim

    2006-09-01T00:00:00Z

    The consequences of using untreated cedar are coming home to roost.

  • Rogers
    News

    Experts pick their Stirling favourites

    2006-09-01T00:00:00Z

    This week, we asked experts across the construction industry who they thought should win:

  • News

    EP super-panel is ticket for work

    2006-09-01T00:00:00Z

    Big name firms dominate English Partnerships’ four-year framework deal, amid claims of lack of diversity

  • News

    Pushing the envelope

    2006-09-01T00:00:00Z

    Work has begun on Ron Arad Associates’ Design Museum in the Holon, close to Tel Aviv in Israel.

  • News

    Spotcheck: East Midlands

    2006-09-01T00:00:00Z

    Our weekly regional news round-up

  • Tony Kettle
    Review

    Culture vulture

    2006-09-01T00:00:00Z

    This week:Tony Kettle